• DOI:10.1088/0004-6256/136/3/1079
Corpus ID: 10861444

On a Scattered-Disk Origin for the 2003 EL61 Collisional Family

@inproceedings{Levison2007OnAS,
  title={On a Scattered-Disk Origin for the 2003 EL61 Collisional Family},
  author={H. Levison and Morbidelli Alessandro and D. Vokrouhlicky and William Bottke},
  year={2007}
}

• H. Levison, Morbidelli Alessandro, +1 author William Bottke
• Published 2007
• Physics

The recent discovery of the 2003 EL61 collisional family in the Kuiper belt by M. Brown and collaborators is surprising because the formation of such a family is a highly improbable event in today's belt. Assuming Brown et al.'s estimate of the size of the progenitors, we find that the probability that a Kuiper belt object was involved in such a collision since primordial times is less than roughly 0.001. In addition, it is not possible for the collision to have occurred in a massive primordial… Expand

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